New York City

New York City

The city's quasi-governmental Economic Development Corporation called on vendors Friday to apply to design new modular public restrooms under Mayor Zohran Mamdani's $4 million pilot program, which will place the lavatories throughout the city. The EDC's request for proposals (RFP), which it shared exclusively with amNewYork before its Feb. 6 release, lays out criteria for companies bidding to design the public restrooms. It comes after Mayor Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced the pilot, which will test 20 to 30 modular restrooms.

New York is an incongruous state. We're home to fabulous wealth - if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world - but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We're among the most diverse - but also the most segregated. We passed the nation's most ambitious climate law - but haven't been meeting its deadlines and continue to subsidize industries hastening the climate crisis.

A growing share of New Yorkers are struggling to afford life in one of the most expensive cities in the world as the costs of basic necessities like housing, groceries, and childcare soar. For decades, the city has failed to build enough new homes, creating a severe shortage that's driven up rents and home prices. Family-sized apartments with two or three bedrooms are especially hard to come by.

The NYC nurses strike turned into a day of unrest when over a dozen caretakers were arrested for refusing to leave a private area in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday. Photo by Dean Moses Simmering tensions built up during the four-week-long NYC nurses strike began to boil on Thursday when more than a dozen caretakers were arrested for refusing to leave the Midtown headquarters of a major hospital trade association.

Polymarket, the cryptocurrency-based prediction market, announced on Tuesday it would be opening New York City's first free grocery store, seemingly a nod to the mayor's signature policy. In a statement the firm said it hoped to empower every New Yorker to achieve food security for good, and that it had donated $1m to the Food Bank for NYC. The eponymous Polymarket store, however, will apparently only run as a temporary pop-up, and despite supposedly opening on 12 February its location has yet to be announced.

CITYWIDE - NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS are about to experience another weekend of killing cold, according to the National Weather Service, which has issued an Extreme Cold Watch starting at 6 p.m. Saturday and extending to 1 p.m. Sunday. An Arctic air mass combined with strong northwest winds may produce dangerous wind chills as low as 15 degrees below zero from late Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning.

Step inside NYBG's Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and be transported to a seemingly alternate universe, where everyday city sights like fire hydrants, pizzerias, taxi cabs, subway stations, construction zones, stoops, everything that screams New York City , are adorned with thousands of meticulously designed flower displays. The result feels like a floral fever dream of sorts. From a brownstone covered in cascades of brightly colored flora to a train station

If you don't know your way around, look for Guest Services. Airport customer service agents are trained to help direct you to quieter areas or sensory tools like bags and lanyards. Outside of the city limits, the Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, LI, and the Westchester County Airport, in West Harrison, are part of the Sunflower program. Bring your own comfort items from home. Noise-canceling headphones or familiar sensory toys can make even busy terminals feel more manageable.

Even if you're not close by, it's worth making the trip. This is more than just a room with chairs and a few tables; the team behind Pier 57 has worked hard on creating an indoor park vibe. There's soft, turf-style seating where you can stretch out and relax. Kids can stay busy with lawn games like cornhole while you sit back, sip a coffee, and watch them play without feeling guilty (or frozen!). And you all will get some much- needed Vitamin D.

CITYWIDE - THE CITY COUNCIL is set to hold hearings next week into the wave of exposure deaths during the ongoing deep freeze, reports NBC 4 News , following an announcement by Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday that another person was found deceased, the 17th since the beginning of the cold weather.

They describe this as being part of their mission of giving back to the city they call home. After months of planning, we're excited to announce 'The Polymarket' is coming to New York City. New York's first free grocery store. We signed the lease. And we donated $1 million to Food Bank For NYC - an organization that changes how our city responds to hunger. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/BGMCWUMz8n - Polymarket (@Polymarket) February 3, 2026

CITYWIDE - THE MTA ON Wednesday issued a notice that Automated Camera Enforcement fines are set to begin on Friday, Feb. 6, on the B68, B60 and M57 bus routes. Vehicles caught improperly using busways and bus lanes, blocking bus stops or illegally double parked will receive summonses that start at $50 and escalate to $250 for repeat violators. Bus routes with automated enforcement on average have increased speeds by 5%, with some corridors seeing gains as high as 30%, according to the authority.

BROOKLYN, NY - Brooklyn straphangers, heads up: G train weekend service changes loom for 2026 signal upgrades that could disrupt your commute. Service will end between Bedford-Nostrand Aves. and Church Ave. on select weekends in 2026, from 9:30 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, the MTA announced. The Crosstown Line's original signals, installed over 90 years ago, are well past their useful life, causing frequent delays for 160,000 daily passengers, NYC Transit says.

Pier 55's Little Island is one of New York City's most unique man-made landscapes! This floating park offers an immersive experience filled with art, music and nature. Each month features different plant species to explore, along with hidden surprises throughout the garden, including a patio piano that plays music when stepped on and interactive optical illusions. And don't forget the stunning views of the Hudson River and frequent live performances that make this spot extra magical. Price: Free

On Sunday, Zoitas told Fortune, he was at the Knicks game and met some people from the predictions marketplace Kalshi, who offered to pay for an event where shoppers could receive $50 each in free groceries between noon and 3:00 pm. Fortune calculated that, if all 300 or so people in line spent this full allotment, it could cost Kalshi up to $150,000 in groceries.

My best friend and I have been talking about buying a two-family house and living in it together. We're both in our late 30s and have wanted to buy for a while, but everything is out of our range as solo buyers - so going for it together seems like the ideal (and only) way to get out of the rental market in New York City.

Criminal Court Judge John Walsh dismissed most of the roughly three-dozen summonses he heard on Monday, either due to insufficient details or errors in the NYPD-issued tickets or simply as a warning, also known as an "adjournment in contemplation of dismissal." Only a few cyclists were actually forced to pay a fine, albeit for pleading down their original criminal summonses to disorderly conduct, a violation.

This past week in New York City, fifteen inches of snow fell and more than twenty-two hundred snowplows pushed it away. Twelve thousand miles of sidewalk were shovelled. Two hundred and nine million pounds of salt were spread, and, after it got really bad, two hundred thousand gallons of calcium chloride, a chemical ice melt, were deployed. Sometimes the work you do leaves its mark; sometimes it doesn't.

Free groceries, courtesy of your favorite prediction market. That's the stunt that both Kalshi and Polymarket are attempting to pull off in New York City, in an apparent nod to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's pledge to open city-run grocery stores. Kalshi's offering arrived first, offering shoppers up to $50 worth of free groceries at Westside Market, a grocery store in Manhattan's East Village on Tuesday. Business Insider attended the event and found a long line.

In what was once an establishment reverberating the motto "peace, love, and burritos," chaos erupted when Grullon entered the restaurant near Flatbush Avenue and St. Mark's Place at around 3:30 p.m., as captured by the eatery's surveillance video and obtained by CBS News New York. Witnesses described her using racial slurs and then turning violent, striking the older diner with the bottle, which resulted in a head injury requiring staples.